DIONNE QUINTS
PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS
MANGHFSTPR, Jan. .10.
Tho Manchester .Guardian in an .editorial Jo-day makes gonial play of the ' psychologica.l -tests 'to whjtch the p.ionne' quintuplets have .been subjected.
"Kings, 'potentates, film .stars, gangsters—none of these 'compelling fypes ihay.e- been .more copiously written up," says tJh.e editorial.
"Now comes the arrival ,of scientfhe psychological tests to see what grey ".matter is underneath all the ap|uteV'pub(lJ t eiiy. : fho Infants, fortunately, emerge from the'orxleal with not a slain on their intelligence, so .t)iey' may yet jbc infant prO".^igi.es in more sense ,tnan .one.
.".■Genuine w.ell-wish;ers would perhaps px.eler common, sense to brilliance, for if their career continues as it has ibegun, they will need all the stability they can muster."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 12
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119DIONNE QUINTS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 18975, 27 March 1936, Page 12
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